The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
HERODOTUSMy men have become women, but the women men.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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